WO1997023962A2 - Method and apparatus for intersymbol interference reduction using array processing of diversity signals - Google Patents
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- the present invention generally relates to the demodulation of a digital communications radio signal received by a plurality of antennas in the presence of multipath time dispersion
- ISI intersymbol interference
- ISI from multipath time dispersion is traditionally mitigated by some form of equalization, such as linear equalization, decision feedback equalization, or maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE)
- MLSE maximum likelihood sequence estimation
- the complexity of such schemes increases with the number of echoes that need to be resolved
- the increase in complexity is exponential
- Another approach for handling ISI is to use multiple receive antennas and diversity combining. This approach is analyzed in an article authored by F. Adachi, and identified as "BER performance of QDPSK with postdetection diversity reception in mobile radio channels," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 40, pp. 237-249, Feb. 1991. The analysis shows that the technique works well, so long as the delay spread, i.e.
- the delay between the first and last significant signal image arrival is small relative to a symbol period (e.g. less than 3/10 of a symbol period). So, when the delay spread is small, equalization can be avoided by using diversity combining. However, when the delay spread is significant, diversity combining is not sufficient to mitigate the ISI. Accordingly, it would be desirable to improve the usage of diversity combining to mitigate ISI when the delay spread is significant.
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary digital wireless
- Fig. 2 is an example of diversity combining
- Fig. 3 is a block diagram, illustrating an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 4 is a block diagram illustrating another exemplary embodiment
- Shown in Figure 1 is a block diagram of a digital wireless communication system.
- Digital information symbols denoted s(n) are passed to a transmitter 102, which converts the symbol stream to a radio waveform for transmission using antenna 104.
- the transmitted signal is received by a plurality of receive antennas 106.
- Each antenna signal is processed by a radio unit 108, which filters, amplifies, mixes, and samples the signal appropriately, giving rise to a sequence of received samples.
- These received samples are processed in baseband processor 1 10 to produce a sequence of detected digital symbol values.
- the baseband processor 110 would work as follows. Let r a (n) and r b (n) denote the received sample streams on antennas a and b respectively. These sample streams can be modeled as:
- x denotes antenna
- c x (0) is the channel tap associated with the desired signal and antenna x
- z x (n) denotes the impairment (noise plus other signal interference).
- I and Q quadrature components of the received signals are treated as single, complex samples, so that the received samples, the channel taps, the impairment samples, and possibly the information symbol values are complex numbers.
- the baseband processor would form detection statistics using a weighted sum of the received samples. This would be done by estimating channel taps and the impairment power on each antenna, denoted Z x .
- the weights, w a and w b would be computed as follows:
- detection statistics y(n) would be computed as follows:
- FIG. 2 A block diagram illustrating this traditional approach is shown in Figure 2.
- Each received sample stream is used by a corresponding single tap channel estimator 202 to estimate the single channel tap associated with the desired signal.
- One channel tap per antenna is provided to weight processor 204.
- the term "processor” refers to any device or software routine which processes data. Accordingly, all or any of the processors described herein may be implemented using a one or more physical devices, e.g. , IC packages.
- An impairment estimator 206 is used to estimate the power levels of the impairment on the different antennas. Though not shown, the impairment power estimator 206 may use received signal samples, a channel tap estimate per antenna, and known or detected information symbols to estimate the impairment powers by averaging impairment sample values.
- the weight processor 204 determines the combining weights, as described in equation (2). Then, each half complex multiplier (HCM) 208 forms the real part of the product of the conjugate of the weight with the received signal sample. The products are summed in adder 210, giving the detection statistic, which is provided to detector 212 to determine the information symbols sent.
- HCM half complex multiplier
- Array processing techniques can be used to improve the performance of the diversity combiner.
- These techniques are typically used to reject interference from other communication signals.
- the impairment estimator would be replaced by a data correlation estimator, which would estimate the data correlation matrix R rr given by:
- the data correlation matrix is estimated and tracked with time, as are the channel tap values.
- an implementation using an LMS adaptive approach for finding the weights is given.
- the weights can be computed in a manner similar to equation (5), except that the data correlation matrix is replaced by the impairment correlation matrix, so that
- the impairment correlation matrix is constructed using products of echo channel tap values.
- the received signals consist of two images of the desired signal, a first ray (associated with s(n)) and a second ray (associated with s(n-1)), so that
- the impairment corresponds to the second ray image in this example.
- the impairment correlation matrix can be constructed as:
- the impairment correlation matrix is singular, so that direct application of equation (6) is not possible. Accordingly, the adjoint of the matrix can be used, so that the weights become:
- the weights w a and w b would then be used to combine the received signal samples, as in equation (3).
- the impairment correlation matrix would then be the sum of the outer products of the other ray channel tap vectors, where each vector corresponds to a particular path delay. For example, with 2 antennas and 3 channel taps each, then
- FIG. 3 A block diagram of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is given in Figure 3.
- Each antenna's received sample stream is provided to a multi- tap channel estimator 302, which models the channel using a plurality of channel taps.
- One channel tap estimate from each antenna is provided to the weight processor 204.
- the rest of the channel tap estimates are provided to the impairment correlation processor 306, which computes an impairment correlation matrix using the channel tap estimates.
- the weight processor 204, the HCMs 208, the summer 210, and the detector 212 are used to form a detected information symbol stream.
- the baseband processor uses an equalizer, but the number of channel tap estimates used by the equalizer is less than the number of channel tap estimates available.
- the channel taps not used by the equalizer are used to form an impairment correlation matrix.
- This second embodiment is first illustrated with an example.
- the received signals consist of three images of the desired signal, a first ray
- the baseband processor uses, for example, an MLSE based procedure as described in the above-incorporated Bottomley patent application, except that it is based on only the first two rays.
- the baseband processor forms and accumulates branch metrics of the form:
- the detected symbol sequence is then one that minimizes the accumulated branch metric.
- the impairment would correspond to the third ray image.
- the impairment correlation matrix can be formed as: ;
- the impairment correlation matrix is singular, so that direct application of equation (12) is not possible.
- the adjoint of the matrix can be used, so that the matrix inverse is approximated by
- impairment correlation matrix can be formed using a number of nonequalized channel tap estimates.
- a block diagram depicting an exemplary configuration of the second embodiment is shown in Figure 4, in which like elements correspond to those shown in Figure 3.
- multi-tap channel estimators are used to form a plurality of channel tap estimates for the desired signal. A subset of these are sent to the branch metric processor 402 as channel tap estimates. The remaining subset of channel tap estimates, containing ISI channel tap estimates, is sent to an impairment correlation processor 306, which forms the impairment correlation matrix for the branch metric processor 402.
- the branch metric processor 402 forms branch metrics using the received signal samples, the subset of channel tap estimates provided by the multi-tap channel estimators 302, and the impairment correlation matrix provided by impairment correlation processor 306.
- the branch metrics are accumulated in sequence estimation processor 404 to determine the detected information symbol sequence.
- a common choice for the sequence estimation algorithm is the Viterbi algorithm.
- Both embodiments of the present invention can be adapted to provide both ISI and interference rejection.
- This is done by modifying the impairment correlation processor 306 to include terms related to other impairments, such as co-channel interference and/or thermal noise.
- the correlation matrix associated with other impairments can be estimated by averaging other impairment sample products, where other impairment samples are obtained by taking received samples and subtracting out all of the desired signal, making use of all the channel tap estimates.
- This other impairment correlation matrix is then added to the correlation matrix formed by the ISI channel tap estimates.
- part of the matrix is formed by averaging residual values, i.e. the portion remaining after removing the desired signal, whereas the other part of the matrix is formed by using ISI channel tap estimates.
- the impairment correlation matrix is only one of several forms that can be used to represent impairment correlations.
- Other forms include the inverse of the impairment correlation matrix or a subset of its elements, as well as the square root of the matrix.
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